Read the excerpt.


Till the free soul to a composedness charmed,

Finding the elements of rage disarmed,

O’er all below a solemn quiet grown,

Joys in the inferior world, and thinks it like her

own …

In these lines from “A Nocturnal Reverie” by Anne Finch, what does the speaker refer to when she says “the inferior world”?



the hassle of hectic daily life

the world that is inferior to modern life

the simpler way of life

the world beyond the grave